Touching more
lives with MR

At Philips, we believe MR still has huge untapped potential. Potential to make an even bigger difference to healthcare. Potential to touch far more lives than it does today. Exploring these possibilities is our mission – and by partnering with you, we can create meaningful innovations.

Together, we can make the technology more accessible to patients – through consistent imaging, intuitive interfaces, and patient- friendly systems. By empowering you with our leading-edge technologies for image acquisition and visualization, we can help you deliver personalized, more definitive answers to even the most complex diagnostic questions. And our MR-based tools and applications let you extend the benefits beyond diagnostics, helping to increase the impact of MR in healthcare.

This is what makes Philips MR unique. This is our commitment to expanding the role of MR within the health continuum, and helping you deliver better care at lower cost.

Join us at ISMRM this year, and see how together we can touch more lives with MR.

Future developments

We are continuing with our partners our journey to make MR more accessible1 and definitive2. At ISMRM this year, you will see some more developments that contribute to bringing our vision to life. The need for speed for instance, with Compressed SENSE3, which relies on a heavy sub-sampled acquisition and iterative reconstruction. Come see also our advancements on APT3 (Amide Proton Transfer) a non-contrast technique based on endogenous cellular proteins in tissue, typically present in brain tumors.

Elevate neuro diagnostics

MultiBand SENSE
High acceleration for your fMRI and DTI sequences

MultiBand SENSE allows you to use state-of-the-art acceleration factors in the brain by simultaneously exciting multiple slices. Due to a shorter minimum TR for fMRI, larger anatomical coverage or higher temporal resolution can be used. With MultiBand SENSE you can perform fMRI exams with high speed and high resolution, simultaneously¹. In your DWI/DTI sequences larger anatomical coverage or higher number of diffusion directions can be acquired².

¹ High speed due to using MultiBand SENSE and high resolution due to using in-plane dS SENSE

MultiBand SENSE in practice

Listen to how Richard Watts and Hugh Garavan from the University of Vermont collaborated with Philips on MultiBand SENSE. They included MultiBand SENSE into their study protocol for the ABCD study, one of the largest child development studies ever attempted.

3D NerveVIEW
Review nerve plexus, non-invasively

3D NerveVIEW improves visualization of the brachial and lumbar plexus by providing you with a high resolution T2w TSE acquisition with reduced remaining intra-lumen signal of the veins¹. In addition, 3D isotropic imaging method allows for reformats in any plane (including oblique) without loss of resolution helping you to save scan time and improve spinal nerve plexuses assessment.

¹ By use of MSDE black blood pre-pulse with STIR/SPAIR, compared to our STIR/SPAIR sequence without MSDE pre-pulse

4D-TRANCE
Contrast-free imaging of brain vascular anatomy

4D TRANCE is a time-resolved technique for non-contrast angiography, promoting patient comfort and enabling you to evaluate the patency of the vascular anatomy in the brain using endogenous contrast with MIP visualization of multiple phases.

What others say about...

Black Blood imaging

At the Rothschild Foundation Hospital in Paris we run most of our post contrast T1 TSE sequences with MSDE black blood suppression because it is easier to interpret the data with the high signal from small vessels removed to optimize conspicuity of contrast enhancing lesions.

Dr. Savatovsky, Fondation Rothschild, Paris, France

Related FieldStrength articles on neuro imaging

St. Joseph’s Hospital, USAMRI in a Neuro Emergency department for fast, confident decisions

When MRI is the preferred choice, ED patients can get fast MRI and fast diagnosis.

UVM appreciates latest neuro MR methods for diagnosing and workflow.

Black Blood imaging helped in suggesting the diagnosis and choosing the treatment.

NIH ABCD Study*

The NIH Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United states. We are proud to announce that below institutions are taking part in the ABCD Study by conducting their research on Philips MRI scanners.

Views on MR in radiotherapy

I believe that MRI provides us with a direction towards hypo fractionation, and potentially less toxicity. MR has already become deeply integration into our clinical practice. We have clinical protocols for planning the treatment of virtually all tumor sites like pelvis, brain and esophagus for external beam radiation therapy.

We’ve worked intensively with Philips for the past 10 years on new developments that make it easier to integrate MRI into our clinical practice. Like dedicated sequences for radiotherapy that give us the high contrast and high geometric fidelity we need for treatment planning.

Ingenia MR-RT

IntelliSpace Portal 8.0

MR Clinical applications

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